End of Winters

It’s common to hear about the horrific effects of climate change: super-storms, wildfires, sea-level rise, droughts, food shortages and the like, and feel great concern for our children’s future.

Indeed, life on this planet will change in a great number of ways, though some will be more off-putting than outright hellish.  Here’s a paper from The Economist on the end of winters as we know them.  If you live in the northern parts of Minnesota or Finland, that’s a change you’ll probably enjoy, but for most people, the cold snap of winter is rather appealing; it’s certainly salubrious for parts of the world that tend to have infectious diseases that are spread by mosquitoes.